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A dissection in progress: the anatomy professor at his lectern. Line block after a drawing after a woodcut, 1493.

A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493.

Medieval medicine : Mondino's 'Anothomia' / Dino Buzzetti.

Anothomia di Mondino de' Liuzzi da Bologna, XIV secolo / a cura di Piero P. Giorgi e Gian Franco Pasini ; introduzione, ricerca anatomica, revisione del testo italiano, note critiche, biografia e bibliographia, Piero P. Giorgi ; trascrizione, apparato critico, traduzione ed iconografia, Albertino Cavazza e Gian Franco Pasini.

Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.

De omnibus humani corporis interioribus membris Anathomia / [Mondino dei Luzzi].

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano / [Mondino dei Luzzi].

An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Fasciculo de medicina. Collectorio universalissimo chiamado fasciculo de medicina, extracto dalla achademia delli antiqui, et moderni approbati medici, tractante delli accidenti delle urine, delle egritudine particular, della flobothomia, delle ferite, delli membri genitali, et breviter de tutte le infirmita ... / Azonto el singularissimo conseio de maistro Piero de Tausignano ... contra peste. Azonta anchora la stupenda anothomia de maistro Mondino ... Novissimamente per lindustria de Cesaro Arrivabeno ... revisto.

D. Matthæi Curtii Papiensis medicorum sua tempestate facile principis In Mundini anatomen explicatio / Nunc primum in lucem aedia.

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

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A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

D. Matthæi Curtii Papiensis medicorum sua tempestate facile principis In Mundini anatomen explicatio / Nunc primum in lucem aedia.

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.